Review as of 10/15/2023
[v0.3.1]
Short Review: A unique game with a lot of promise. Lacks content and polish, but if the dev keeps working and improving, can shape up to be a very fun game.
The Gameplay: HoE is striving to be a sort of a maze-like horror game with some puzzle elements. You open main doors by solving a simple puzzle and then you must navigate to certain checkpoints while avoiding traps and the main antagonist, a sort of doctor octopus robot chick. Traps can be bypassed by cumming on the control switches, but if you do cum then that will alert the robot to your location where she will look for you. So far there are only about 4 levels, and each level is pretty short.
There's an upgrade system that improves your character's stats, as well as some unlockable cosmetics. You gain points to spend on these upgrades by completing your objectives and leaving the station. There's only 3 upgrades so far, but you can easily beat the game without any of them.
The Visuals: HoE has a pretty unique art style going for it which is definitely a positive. The character model is actually pretty nice and the ability to customize certain aspects of your character, like skin color and cum color, is a good touch. The animations that play are also pretty good, especially the facial animations when your character ejaculates.
The lighting is a bit too dark for my taste, but are gamma options to help alleviate that. Where I think the game could use a lot of improvement is the environment. Most the game takes place in long hallways that all look the same, with a few repeating rooms here and there to break them up. It can be fairly easy to get lost since there are so many repeating assets throughout the levels.
The UI could also use some work. There's nothing too bad about it, but it does look like a first draft. It's a very basic looking design with simple button layouts and a lot of wasted space and disorganization.
The Audio: No music, which is neither a good or bad thing. I think it fits the tone of the game. There's really not much audio either. Your own footfalls, the heavy clank of the robot moving around, and a soft hum and creaking of the space station. The sex sounds are pretty generic. Simple, but serves its purpose.
The Porn: You play as a futanari or a fem-male. The entire game focuses on the penis with some light bondage elements. There's not too much to indulge yourself with. What is there is serviceable enough but it could definitely benefit from having more.
Most of the time you're sticking your dick into a milking machine, or being forcefully milked by traps or the robot. It seems like the dev is actively adding more animations in for different encounters, so we can probably expect more as time goes on.
My thoughts to the dev: You got a pretty good thing going. I don't know how much you plan on making for this game, if this is a sort first game experience or what have you, but what you have at the moment is pretty decent.
I think the game could definitely benefit from having more in the environment, as opposed to just hallways and simple rooms. It doesn't quite feel like a space station.
The UI really needs to be cleaned up. It feels like a afterthought or first draft. Some of the animations are a little clunky too, specifically the character's movement animations. Gonna keep my eye on this game and see how things progress.
3 stars as of now. It's got a good start, but needs more content to feel worth the download, and needs some more effort in a few places.